View Full Version : What would you do?


sdshorty
06-22-2008, 01:53 AM
How would you feel If you were at a job where since almost the beginning you have been made to feel as no matter what you do, you are not good enough, and even though you busted your ass to do a good job, and showed results, you were still being nitpicked by your boss about every little thing, anything negative that they could possibly find?

If your boss always found something negative about you to say at your reviews, and completely failed not notice the great achievements you've accomplished in your position, which happen to way outdo any small mistakes?

If your latest review she tells you she feels that you are possibly incapable, or even have the desire, to do better?? And that the only reason that you are basically there is because she "likes you"?

Would you still feel comfortable continuing to work in an environment where you KNOW you do a good job, everyone around you praises you except your own boss who seems to only want to find any little possible negative thing about your work that she can? Where you feel like she wishes someone else was working there instead of you, where you feel like your boss has absolutely no faith or confidence in you? Where you feel like you will always just be under the microscope and micromanaged and no matter what you do you know you will never meet 'her standards'?

What would you do? Here are some choices, but feel free to add any others that you feel could be considered:

A. You give your 1-month resignation notice, and during that month find another job, which you know couldn't be too hard considering your skills and experience and education. also knowing that Summer is the slowest time of year and it would be the best time for you and for them to find someone new before the new school year started. But also with this choice, there is risk involved with the possiblity of failure to find a job within that month and struggling/being very tight for a while financially until you do find a new steady job.

B. Wait it out and see if anything you do will make things better, and just bite your tongue and keep feeling unappreciated and underrated and underpaid.

C. Just stay until you do find another job, then give your resignation notice, with the possibility that your new offer might not want to wait for you for 2 weeks to a month for you to start with them so you can give proper notice to your old job, in turn possibly losing that job prospective?

D. Other

VinnysGirl
06-22-2008, 01:55 AM
GO with A... it's not worth it to you to deal with that everyday when there are so many other jobs that you would be appreciated at!!!

square bear
06-22-2008, 02:11 AM
A. definitely :yes

sdshorty
06-22-2008, 03:12 PM
Thank you ladies. right now what I REALLY want to do is Choice A. However, my fear of the unknown is a bit strong at this point. It's not really the kind of thing I do ya know? I'm not really the type of person that does stuff on a whim like this without having a solid back-up plan. I mean I have loose backup plans, but nothing solid, and I'm afraid of failure. That would be the only thing holding me back...but then on the other end, I do not want to be 'let go'. I don't know that it would get to that, but knowing my boss and at this point after 2 1/2 years if I don't meet her 'standards', I don't know that i ever will. It's hard for me to see at this point what she really wants from me, I feel like she really wishes I was someone else....the person that had the job before me. And as much as I feel I am doing a good job, she makes me feel like 5" tall when she speaks to me. And I really hate that. Anyway...I'm babbling, I still have a lot of thinking to do...

Rileysmom
06-22-2008, 03:39 PM
Renee, you are a smart, sweet, kind woman with a degree. You are a freaking commodity in the job world and you don't deserve to be treated like shit. :hugs Have you checked out craigslist to see if there are jobs that would have equal compensation doing something you would enjoy?

Miss ♥
06-22-2008, 03:44 PM
A!! I've always said that if I was miserable at work I would leave with out a 2nd glance back.

sdshorty
06-22-2008, 04:00 PM
Renee, you are a smart, sweet, kind woman with a degree. You are a freaking commodity in the job world and you don't deserve to be treated like shit. :hugs Have you checked out craigslist to see if there are jobs that would have equal compensation doing something you would enjoy?

Nothing really good on Craigslist, but I have found quite a few jobs on sites like Monster and Career Builder that I've applied for. I've been submitting my resume like crazy this past week, before I had this meeting with my boss, so I guess I was just having this hidden hunch that was causing me to do so. Now I just want to leave more than ever...